Talk:Language education in the United States

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Sources I plan on using in the future to expand on and improve the article:

Byram, Michael. From Foreign Language Education to Education for Intercultural Citizenship : Essays and Reflections. Multilingual Matters, 2008. EBSCOhost, butte.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=235284&site=ehost-live&scope=site. 24 February 2019.

Reagan, Timothy G. Language, Education, and Ideology: Mapping the Linguistic Landscape of U.S. Schools : Mapping the Linguistic Landscape of U.S. Schools. Praeger, 2002. EBSCOhost, butte.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=85908&site=ehost-live&scope=site. 24 February 2019.

Osborn, Terry A. The Future of Foreign Language Education in the United States. Greenwood Publishing Group, 2002. EBSCOhost, butte.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=72689&site=ehost-live&scope=site. 24 February 2019. Jasminecrawford (talk) 02:50, 25 February 2019 (UTC)

(talk) I began editing by adding the introduction header and describing the events described in the first paragraph further.Jasminecrawford (talk) 03:43, 8 April 2019 (UTC)

I added a new heading titled "Language as Defined in Education" and defined language as used in education.Jasminecrawford (talk) 03:47, 8 April 2019 (UTC)

In these edits, I added in the Section "Debates on Language Education". Here, I described Cultural, pragmatic, and cognitive debates associated with foreign language education. One example from the introduction was removed from the intro and added under this section.Jasminecrawford (talk) 03:52, 8 April 2019 (UTC)

The statements surrounding the sentences "In adopting this practice of solely teaching English, we are unable to communicate with 80 percent of the world." are not founded in reality and show a massive PR China-centric bias that should not exist in this page. Simply because the US does not teach Mandarin to a level comparable to Spanish or French in secondary education does not mean that US persons cannot communicate with Mandarin speakers, who by and large at a professional level, speak English, but also by inferring that the raw number of people speaking the language somehow correlates to the economic benefit of learning it, gives this article a whiff of PRC propaganda. There is a strong economic benefit to learning English for foreign speakers, and the US is by and large a free market economy, and decisions of language availability at a secondary level exist at a local level. The idea being inferred in that of governmental control of language availability infers that the speaker is a PRC propogandist, knowingly or unknowingly, who wishes to present an idea, however transparently, that somehow Mandarin Chinese is as important to US Americans as speaking their native English to the detriment of other non-Mandarin foreign languages. Nonsense. Additionally, are TED talks considered primary sources??? Freakdog (talk) 19:04, 12 May 2021 (UTC)

Proposed merge of Languages Other Than English into Language education in the United States
The current article is a stub of only a few paragraphs. Buffaboy talk 22:26, 14 May 2021 (UTC)
 * That doesn't make any sense. Most of that article is about Australia. It would be reasonable to move United States information to this page. 50.30.176.23 (talk) 23:06, 21 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Closing, given the uncontested objection and no support. Klbrain (talk) 14:59, 3 October 2021 (UTC)